You will not believe what's happening at my house!!!

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If anyone had ever mentioned that this would ever take place at the edge of our land, I would have told them 'no way'! We have watched the property next door, within throwing distance of our house, being cleaned off for the past 6 weeks or so. We have tried to find out what was going up. We thought maybe someone was building a house. Well, we've been lied to over and over and over again! So on Tuesday night, after a huge company with all their machines started cleaning off that 5 3/4 acres (half of which runs behind our house and connected to our acreage at the end), we decided to drive down the road and see what was going on. They had a huge bonfire and my husband pulled up and went down to talk to the men. What he learned shocked us to the core!! See, we live in one county, and our land borders with the next county. The next county has a law that they can build BINGO HALLS - doesn't matter where unless it's in one big city which is prohibited. NO ZONING Laws FOR the small communities. Well, we live in a small community and the acreage they bought is in the next county - nobody within a mile or so on the other side. We had tried to buy the property years ago and the lady that owned it said we would have first chance at it. She lied! She either gave or sold it to her daughter and her husband who live in another county, miles away from what is going on, so it's no concern to them. They sold it to some people who are into gambling. They secretly went about doing all this behind our backs to get a license to build this HUGE BINGO HALL (80 feet long and 40 feet wide). In fact, the guy told my husband that they kept it secret until they got it ready because they didn't want to 'upset the neighborhood'! WELL, they have made the neighborhood mad and there isn't much we can do. Our land and nice brick home will go WAY DOWN in value. We'll never be able to get anything for it. It won't be worth much to our two children when we die. This was their inheritance - the house and 65 acres of land. We just made a mistake of building on the small end of our property, I suppose. But it angers me to think that people like these gamblers love money so much that they forget there are people out there that don't gamble and have no use for a gambling hall being next door. This area here has only a 2 lane road leading between 2 four lane highways, one of them an interstate. We live 7 miles from the interstate and the guy told my husband that's the reason they are building here, to draw the traffic off the interstate. Also, the blinking BINGO lights and all the lights from the parking lot will be a nuisance. IN FACT, the parking lot will be right behind our house since the property is a long section of land and it goes behind our house and connects to our other land. They have no other place to park. This angers me considering my bedroom is on the back side of the house and our property line here at the corner of the house is only about 60 feet from the edge of their property! Would you be angry if this happened to you? What would you do? We are going to a meeting in that county tomorrow night, hopefully to find what our recourse might be. But, I doubt, barring a miracle from GOD (and I do believe in them), the building will go up.